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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Command to check compressed usage size for each fileset quickly

We are performing IBM Spectrum Scale compression on each fileset on daily basis through gpfs policies. The df command is not showing the accurate usage for each fileset and only du shows the actual usage. But since du usually takes long time to pr...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Improve AFM to handle hard links correctly

As per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.2?topic=limitations-afm-afm-dr support for hard links in AFM is very constrained. This is especially problematic for the AFM data migration use case outlined here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/s...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Option Needed to Disable Implicit WRITE_ACL Permission for Owner on NFSv4 ACLs

According to https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_5.1.0/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r10.doc/bl1adm_admglnv4.htm Spectrum Scale grants implicit WRITE_ACL permission to the owner of files and directories in conflict with the NFSv4 specifi...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

When a server node fails, the client should hang instead of reporting "stale file handle".

When a server node fails, the client should hang instead of reporting "stale file handle".
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Client memory automatically shrinks.

When clients open a lot of files, MMFSD takes up a lot of memory. When the file is closed, the memory should be freed automatically.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Migrate system pool from non-vdisk to vdisk NSDs

GEICO is in the process of migrating from older Scale infrastructure to an ESS infrastructure. Non-disruptive migration is blocked when Migrate system pool from non-vdisk to vdisk NSDs
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

New Fileset Attribute to Ignore Special Owning Group and Everyone Permissions

To allow applications outside our control to function properly when storing data in Spectrum Scale file and directory owners must be granted implicit control and have the ability to run chmod against files and directories they own. Depending on th...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

support RHEL6, SLES11 and Debian in Scale 5.0

Add support for RHEL6, Debian and SLES11 to Scale 5.0.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Free unused dynamic heap memory

The GPFS memory footprint is defined by- pagepool- shared memory pool- heap- stack of all threads (512KB per GPFS thread, usually the stack size is not an issue) "pagepool" and "shared memory pool" are configurable, but no parameter in GPFS to con...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Ganesha Per Client Statistics

ganesha_mgr/ganesha_stats allow only seeing either the overall NFS operations or the per-export breakdown of the NFS operations. There is no command that displays the per-client operations of a particular export which is critical when trying to tr...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

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